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Garlicky Feta White Bean Dip

A healthy, savory dip made with garlic and feta cheese.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Kidney beans and garlic work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 694 recipes mention both. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 14
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Drain and rinse the canned white kidney beans, reserving some of the juice from the can.

  2. Finely mince the garlic cloves and chop the fresh dill.

  3. Crumble the fat free feta into a food processor or blender.

  4. Add the rinsed beans, garlic, lemon juice and dill to the processor with the feta.

  5. Blend, adding reserved bean juice a splash at a time, until the dip is smooth and spreadable.

  6. Taste and adjust the lemon juice, then transfer to a bowl and chill for 30 minutes [about 1 hour total from start] before serving.

By tastykitchen. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Kidney beans + garlictop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together694 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Lemon + dilltop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together976 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Garlic + dilltop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together943 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Garlic + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together8,862 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Kidney beans + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together76 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Flavor stand-ins for the kidney beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (garlic, lemon, dill, cheese):

  1. Chickpeabetter flavor fit
  2. Beansbetter flavor fit
  3. Sesamebetter flavor fit
  4. Kidney beansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against garlic, lemon, dill, cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).